An approach to spectral problems on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

It is shown that eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact Riemannian manifolds can be determined as limits of eigenvalues of certain finite-dimensional operators in spaces of polyharmonic functions with singularities. In particular, a bounded set of eigenvalues can be determined using a space of such polyharmonic functions with a fixed set of singularities. It also shown that corresponding eigenfunctions can be reconstructed as uniform limits of the same polyharmonic functions with appropriate fixed set of singularities.